Reviews tagging 'Animal death'

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

13 reviews

sarahina_b's review

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Minor: Sexism, Emotional abuse, War, Pandemic/Epidemic, Chronic illness, Death, Terminal illness, Death of parent, Animal death, Medical content, Grief, Xenophobia, and Suicidal thoughts

bbygirl21's review against another edition

emotional funny reflective slow-paced

4.0

I was thoroughly surprised by this book. I went in open minded, but I fully expected not to enjoy this book. I don't usually read nonfiction books. I don't go out of my way to find nonfiction books and beyond that general hesitation with nonfiction, the premise of the book didn't really interest me all that much when going into it. But I surprisingly really liked it. I did start to feel a little bored with the book near the end of it. But overall I really enjoyed it and would recommend.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Death, Fire/Fire injury, War, Confinement, Genocide, Classism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Grief, Medical content, Panic attacks/disorders, Mental illness, and Pandemic/Epidemic

Minor: Alcohol, Cancer, Chronic illness, Animal death, and Antisemitism

streberkatze's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective slow-paced

5.0

I'm not sure I would have had the patience to make it through the print version, but I absolutely loved the audiobook. The essays span such a wide range of topics, and John Green's on ever single one of them are so nuanced, intriguing, and often relatable.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer, Mental illness, and Animal death

takarakei's review against another edition

emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad medium-paced

5.0

THE AUDIOBOOK! John narrates it himself (I find his voice so soothing) & one of my favorite essays was an audio exclusive. I just described this book to someone as a 'pop culture' book, but I think that does it a great disservice. This book is just so much more than that. I actually have not read any of John Green's novels (yet), but I have been following him and his brother Hank (read The Carls!) for a couple years, so I knew going in that John has a way with words. You may flip through the table of contents to read the titles of the essays and think this book sounds rather ordinary, but John is able to take even the most seemingly mundane topics and weave beautiful connections to (the often brutal) humanity. There were several times when I was misty eyed.

I give John Green's book 5 stars.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Pandemic/Epidemic, Grief, Mental illness, and Death

Moderate: Child death, Panic attacks/disorders, Animal cruelty, Suicidal thoughts, and Medical content

Minor: War, Slavery, Alcohol, Bullying, Cancer, and Antisemitism

Animal death -

extinction of species, descriptions of hunting and animal cruelty (zoos, captivity, human disregard for animal well being/sentience) - all of which are told in historical context

illgiveyouahint's review against another edition

emotional hopeful informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

4.0

The Kauaʻi ʻōʻō  story made me bawl my eyes out. I think I'm gonna have to buy the physical copy so that I can reread it at some point and highlight favourite passages. But also I think it's great to hear an audiobook of a book of essay by the author himself. With fiction it can feel weird since they're narrating their characters but with essays they're narrating their own thoughts which I think is nice. 

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Medical trauma, Self harm, Animal death, Colonisation, Mental illness, Grief, Chronic illness, Death, Classism, Confinement, Medical content, Suicidal thoughts, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Suicide, Racism, Misogyny, Terminal illness, Slavery, Violence, War, and Vomit

mandaraffe's review against another edition

adventurous emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness

Moderate: Child death

Minor: Animal death, Grief, Medical content, Racism, Terminal illness, Cancer, Slavery, and Suicidal thoughts

bujo_bellel's review against another edition

adventurous challenging funny informative inspiring reflective slow-paced

3.0

I liked it, but it took me too long to finish it since its sooo long

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Mental illness, Death, and Grief

Moderate: Panic attacks/disorders and Animal death

Minor: Cancer

caseythereader's review against another edition

challenging emotional funny hopeful informative reflective sad fast-paced

5.0

 - Honestly, who gave John Green the right? Who let him make me experience the fullness of the human condition via audiobook?
- So many essays in this book had me thinking, oh this will be silly. Rating the Disney Hall of Presidents? This will be a laugh. Yes, but then he'll take a roundabout through a seemingly unrelated anecdote and suddenly you're crying while commuting to work.
- I do think a lot of the power of this book comes from the fact that Green wrote much of it during the early stages of the pandemic, and he frequently references that in the text. But it also adds more layers to the essays, helping to bring our current moment into the context of the whole of human history (whether or not that makes you feel better about the state of things...I'm not sure).
- I do recommend the audiobook for this, as Green puts so much emotion into his reading. Plus, you must hear the call of the extinct bird included in one of the essays. I hear the print version has additional notes, though, so I'll be checking that out as well. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Bullying, Animal death, Chronic illness, Classism, Colonisation, Genocide, Grief, Violence, Alcohol, Cancer, Death, Vomit, and Mental illness

aargot1's review

challenging inspiring reflective

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Mental illness, Death, and Panic attacks/disorders

Minor: Animal death

samchase112's review against another edition

emotional informative inspiring reflective

5.0

Part memoir, part essay, John Green's collection of reviews is startlingly profound and deeply thoughtful. There is something for everyone: history, biology, literature, pop culture, sports. I have realized that John Green is just...my kind of guy. We share many of the same interests, many of the same dreams, the same fears. So hearing him detail his anxieties and the things he finds joy in through this carefully constructed narrative was just so damn interesting and engrossing.

Non-fiction John Green is undeniably superior to fictional John Green.

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Content Warnings

Moderate: Cancer

Minor: Animal death, Death, and Child death